Hi,

I have designed a tower crane and have used LDraw to draw it.

There are some technic brick combonations in the slew mechanism which I
have not seen in existing models and would like to record it.

Without having contest it, is there an libery that I can store it.

Regards

Kieran

Hi all,

Who is the owner of the LDraw pages and group on Facebook?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/LDraworg/282028509934

This one is is Tim Gould's, I see?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21110855277

I see Tim Courtney made this one
http://www.facebook.com/groups/174133799292676/

Shouldn't "we" put some effort in social media?
I think announcements like a new version of MLCad or Part release should be mentioned here?

Jaco

I recognized, that if I use the primitive substitution option with models that have xxxxh.DAT baseplates in them the whole program does crash.
With xxxxh.DAT I mean the baseplate with detailed underside studs - only for the case these get renamed.....

Is this error known ?
Will it be fixed?

Hi all,
I am currently coding on my MPDCenter.
Aim is:
1) Open and Save MPD files.
2) Import DAT and LDR files.
3) Export DAT and LDR files including referenced files from within the MPD.
4) Delete DAT and LDR files from MPD.
5) Import DAT files if used from within the MPD that are not official.
6) Adding the License in a bunch to all files within the MPD.
7) If MPD filename is according to the current OMR Spec. keep the DAT and LDR files also conform to the OMR spec.

That sounds all simple, but in detail it is'nt.

I would be glad if there where some people that like to test it.
Written in Visual Basic Express 2008, so it might also run on Linux and MAC with MONO Enviroment (but this is not the first aim).

If you are interested in further developing this tool please leave your comment here.

cu
mikeheide

This decribes method to create the junction between stud primitives and a non-planar surface. It is not perfect (there are some T-junctions created in the process), but it's pretty efficient. It is also the opportunity to see an example of usage of many tools...


We start with the partial part, stud4a are in position and we need to join them to dome shaped surface above.
Starting file: stb0.dat
an

Hi folks,

I've got a request from Mike Heidemann in regard of the:

0 !THEME Theme name

command in OMR files. We discussed how detailed and how "deep" we should go in the hierarchy of LEGO themes. We have therefore downloaded BL's theme list you'll find at the LDraw wiki:

http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=LDraw_Themes

Look at the list it seems reasonable to use two levels - kind of:

Adventurers / Desert
Adventurers / Dino Island
Adventurers / Jungle

but not three:

Town / Classic Town / Airport
Town / Classic Town / Building
Town / Classic Town / Cargo

for most themes, while some could stand just with the main theme such as:

Creator
Universal Building Set

However sometimes things go wired when you have:

Town / City / Police
Town / Classic Town / Police
Town / Police
Town / World City / Police

We would like to invite the community to come up with some general rules which could be used to cut town the current list.

w.

The Parts Tracker history graph has been improved to always show the latest daily entry on the right-hand side, and count backwards from there for the preceding bars. Previously it counted forward from "the beginning of time", so you could have to wait up to 15 days to see the current state.

Here we summarise the results of the nomination process. The post contains a list of nominees in the format:
Nominee name : Nomination Status (Nominator, Second)

Orion Pobursky : Accepted (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Willy Tschager : Accepted (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Scott Wardlaw : Accepted (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Chris Dee : Accepted (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)

Kevin Clague : Pending (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Sergio Reano : Pending (Scott Wardlaw, Orion Pobursky)
Greg Taft : Pending (Scott Wardlaw, Orion Pobursky)

Travis Cobbs : Declined (Tim Gould)
Tim Gould : Declined (Jean-Philippe Ouellet)
Philippe Hurbain : Declined (Jean-Philippe Ouellet, Tim Gould)
Roland Melkert : Declined (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Magnus Forsberg : Declined (Travis Cobbs, Philippe Hurbain)
Allen Smith : Declined (Tim Gould, Travis Cobbs)
Jim DeVona : Declined (Jean-Philippe Ouellet, Tim Gould)
Ken Drew : Declined (Scott Wardlaw, Orion Pobursky)

Replies to this have been disabled. The nominations thread is where they belong.

Per the LDraw.org Bylaws at http://www.ldraw.org/article268.html, Subsection
6.03(a), the 2011/2012 Steering Committee hereby calls for the community to
nominate individuals as candidates for the 2012/2013 Steering Committee[1].

Please post nominations in response to this message. Nominations will only be
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Per ss.6.03(a), you must specify the name of the person you are nominating,
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nominee does not accept, it will be assumed that he or she has declined, and
they will not be placed on the ballot.

Nominations will close at 11:59 PM GMT on 29 February 2012. This means that to
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The Steering Committee will give sufficient notice of the election and election
procedures per ss.6.03(b).

NOTE: subsection 6.03(b) states that elections should take place before March 1.
We interpret this to mean that we will commence the election on March 1, but
since it is electronic, it will run for 2 weeks, just as last time. The exact
time and date of start and end will be announced sometime very close to (but
after) 0000 GMT March 1.

Again, thanks to all of you for your commitment to the goals of the
organization, and in working with us this year. Please, stay involved with
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On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee

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Following the discussion in the Standrad Committee forum:

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